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Author Pernau, Margrit, author

Title Emotions and modernity in colonial India : from balance to fervor / Margrit Pernau
Published New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (348 pages)
Summary 'Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India' investigates the experiences, interpretations and practices of emotions in India between 1857 and the First World War. It is based on a large archive of sources in Urdu, many explored for the first time, showing the transformation from the ideal of balance and harmony to a desire for strong, visceral and even indomitable passions, which the contemporaries took as a sign for the youthfulness and vigor of the community
Notes Previously issued in print: 2019
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 30, 2020)
Subject Emotional intelligence -- India -- History -- 19th century
Civilization
Emotional intelligence
Social conditions
India -- Civilization -- 19th century
India -- Social conditions -- 19th century
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190990831
019099083X